Communist party members in Guizhou will chair the working committees to ensure that Apple abides by its new law, a measure the country alleges is to allow the state to fully protect customer data. Critics contest the statute, arguing it will be used to gather personal information on political dissidents or to steal proprietary trade secrets.

The board would be comprised of roughly 10 members, reports Reuters.

Tech companies in general are often forced to choose between cutting themselves off to the extremely large market in China or acquiescing to the government’s authoritarian requirements and receiving subsequent backlash. Apple is choosing the latter because a company’s innate, top priority is to make profit. Whether yielding to China will be good or bad for its bottom line is not yet clear. (RELATED: Power And Billions Of Dollars: Apple’s Deal With Communist China, And Why They Did It)

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